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I agree that all web-based mail clients are pretty low. Gmail/Outlook/other clearly-developed alternatives are good, but they also have native counterparts Giv

• __d 7y ago
  I'll always consider other solutions, but ... A native application has advantages over a web site, a web app, or a "native" app built using Electron, etc: * in resource usage, * in UX consistency, * in integration with the rest of the system, eg. for scripting (Apple Script), accessibility, etc * in working with locally-cached emails while offline or with degraded connectivity, * in having no ongoing cost, * in being vendor independent, * in supporting the use of standard protocols (SMTP / IMAP), rather than a proprietary web backend API and there's probably more I could come up with if I thought about it some more. A web application (not an Electron app) has one primary advantage: it can easily access significantly more computational and storage resources than my laptop can. That could be an advantage for searching. There's probably other advantages I could think of with more time here too. So, while I'd be happy to consider a web-based solution, I think it's fair to say that I think the deck is stacked against such a product, for my purposes.